Analysis of Orbital Movement Lunar Orbital Station

Abstract

Represents the new project “Deep Space Gateway (DSG)” - an orbital station in the vicinity of the Moon [1]. The DSG can be used as a staging post for exploration missions to the lunar surface and eventually to other deep space destinations including Mars. It is also a platform in a location where the human and technological challenges of long duration human missions in deep space can be investigated and addressed [2]. A DSG may be placed farther from the Moon in halo orbit relative to its position on the line of the Moon-Earth, known as the L2 Lagrange point. One of the modern orbits of interest as a destination for a spacecraft in cis-lunar space is the Near Rectilinear Halo Orbits (NRHO) [4]. This work is devoted to the study of issues related to the orbital movement DSG, to understand which orbit will be optimal.